Новости за 28.11.2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for sanctions against Turkey, following the downing this week by Turkey of a Russian warplane.

A man from North Carolina described as a loner who avoided eye contact opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people, including a police officer, authorities and neighbors said.

More than 70 years after it led Allied aircraft during the D-Day invasion, the C-47 That’s All Brother is being readied for its new home in Dallas.

The American Red Cross and the state Department of Corrections have a fundamental disagreement over the ­definition of “disaster.” And it all comes down to one person: Shelley Koski.

When many people think of a chaplain they picture the Father Mulcahy character on the TV show M*A*S*H.

It wasn't called Fort Bragg Road when Gen. Sherman's troops marched along it; there was no Fort Bragg, and the Yankees wouldn't have been too keen on any place named for a Confederate general.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for sanctions against Turkey, following the downing this week by Turkey of a Russian warplane.

Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh was selfless, always helping others ahead of himself. His wife wanted to honor him with something that would have a similar approach, some sort of memorial that could provide services to those in need. That memorial is the Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Veterans Project at Ohio State's Moritz College of Law.

“I am from hell and continue to live in hell,” says “Finch,” an Afghan interpreter who still lives in his home country. And that’s where he’ll likely remain thanks to the combination of a lack of money and the complex bureaucracy between the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the Ohio-based military contracting company that hired him.

Police entered the headquarters of Kosovo's main opposition party Saturday and arrested dozens of people, including one of its leaders who was wanted for the violent actions he has used to disrupt the country's Parliament.

A million hearings are pending, and it makes sense for them to keep pushing: Just under half of applicants eventually get the benefits, including millions who convince an administrative law judge on appeal that their disability makes a job impossible.

When a U.S. Navy veteran traveled from Long Island to Florida for a knee replacement, his house was the last thing on his mind. But now his memory of it is all he can think about.

Another $345 million for construction of the MOX facility was authorized Wednesday after President Barack Obama inked a highly controversial defense bill.

A gunman who opened fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic was arrested Friday after engaging in gun battles with authorities during an hourslong standoff that killed three people and wounded nine others, officials said.

Two Kenyans in police custody have admitted assisting the Iranian state intelligence to plot attacks on western targets in Kenya, Kenya's police chief said Saturday.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Saturday, after visiting a camp for Syrian refugees, that the displaced should be absorbed by Middle Eastern countries, with the international community sending aid and "encouragement" to the host nations.

President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back. Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday voiced regret over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane, saying his country was "truly saddened" by the incident and wished it hadn't occurred.

Hundreds of demonstrators in London are urging British lawmakers not to back airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Syria.

Instructors at the Kingsland campus recommended Fred Schaefer for the inaugural Pete Wheeler Veterans Memorial Award, which is given to the outstanding veteran student attending classes at the college's Kingsland campus.

Grady Jeffres was on the front lines of war. He moved through Europe by prodding the ground with the tip of a bayonet looking for mines so the Allies could advance. Doing this, he was in five of the major battles in Europe.

The bacteria that cause Legionnaires' Disease have been detected in water samples at the Minneapolis Veterans Medical Center, and officials said they are taking steps to eliminate the pathogen.

A remote-controlled quadcopter hovered over the drone display at the Brookstone store at the Maine Mall on Friday morning. Ten-year-old Jett Wing of Standish gazed longingly at the toy as it darted around the store.

A mortar attack on a United Nations base in northern Mali's Kidal early Saturday killed at least three people, including two U.N. peacekeepers and a contractor, said the mission spokesman.

French President Francois Hollande was meeting with environmental groups Saturday, pushing for an ambitious global deal to reduce man-made emissions blamed for global warming.